First Lesson: Discretion

But no one will believe two freshmen at Northeastern University didn’t spark it up.

One of them, Michael Emery, leaned out his dormitory window on Sunday, the Associated Press reported, and kindly informed a woman in the dorm opposite his — none too quietly — “If you’re looking for weed, my roommate Ferrante has some for sale.” Starting school, making friends, and why not a little money, too?

Well, because two plainclothes police officers overheard the student’s sales pitch and went up to his room. There they found nine bags of marijuana, a digital scale, and more than $1,000 in cash, among other paraphernalia, according to today’s Boston Globe. The students also had rigged a pulley system outside their window

Needless to say, these two salesmen are no longer students at Northeastern.